A large group of juveniles caused a public disturbance Saturday night in Mayfield Heights after being turned away from a packed church festival in neighboring Gates Mills, police said.

Bozeman LORETTO — Saint Francis University Director of Athletics Jim Brazill announced Friday that Chynna Bozeman was promoted to women’s basketball head coach.

The pre-Renaissance painter’s fresco cycle depicting the life of the saint in Assisi, Italy, took an innovative, vibrant approach to celebrating the holy man.

I greet the participants in the “Let’s choose life” demonstration, the young people of the Fraternity of Blessed Mary Immaculate and Saint Francis of Assisi, of Reggio Emilia. Today in Italy and in ...

Pope Francis was a notable exception, choosing not the name of a former pope but that of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th century cleric and patron saint of animals and the environment.

Pope Francis was a notable exception, choosing not the name of a former pope but that of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th century cleric and patron saint of animals and the environment. White smoke ...

Pope Francis was a notable exception, choosing not the name of a former pope but that of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th century cleric and patron saint of animals and the environment.

Pope Francis, for example, drew upon " Francis of Assisi, who is a patron saint of the environment, of animals, and of care for the poor," Pasquier says. What papal names are never chosen?

Cardinal Robert Prevost led a rosary prayer for the late Pope Francis at the Vatican in March 2025. Prevost shares some similar views with the late pope, but many speculate how much change to ...

(The Conversation) — The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s painting.

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s painting.